ROADBLOCK INFO: Confucious symbol of Knowledge: Use public phone to dial information ( must borrow a phone card from local or purchase one) and get word of knowledge, tell what you hear to a monk. SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg619918.html#msg619918)ROUTE INFO: Travel by taxi to Core Pacific City Living Mall SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg619869.html#msg619869)ROUTE INFO: Travel by taxi to Da-Jia Riverside Park, Help row dragon boats, one team member must be the Drummer and the other the Helmsmen SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25487.msg619822.html#msg619822)PIT STOP: [url=http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg619917.html#msg619917] SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg619869.html#msg619869)

Roadblock: One team member must descend 160 feet into Jomblang Cave and search for a Javanese mask and dagger. SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg621041.html#msg621041)

ROUTE INFO: Find Malioboro.

DETOUR: Dance or Park. Dance: Dress in Ketoprak make-up and costumes; one team member performs a dance and the other does a song playing the gamelan (Javanese instrument); teams must collect money from the locals until they have reached 15,000 Rupiah then must donate that money (plus their own?) to the Aisyah orphange. (Amani?Marcus, Ethan & Jenna, Kaylani/Lisa, Laurence/Zac SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.300.html) Located at the cross junction in front of post office (Kantor Pos Besar) and Benteng Vredeburg (Vredeburg Fort) SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg621041.html#msg621041)Park: Dress in a Valet uniform and par park enough motorbikes to make 15,000 Rupiah then donate that money (plus their own?) to the Aisyah orphange. Located in front of Malioboro Mall SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg621041.html#msg621041)

Big thanks to LeafsFan aka RealityTVistheBest for their work on Leg 2!!

EPISODE 3: Yogyakarta, Indonesia to Borbudur, Indonesia

Film Date: June 23, 2011Air Date: October 9, 2011

ROUTE INFO: Make your way to Fort VredeburgROUTE INFO: Make your way by bike with members of Pory Jadul to Nagasem Bird Market SOURCE 1 (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,25526.msg620961.html#msg620961) SOURCE 2

ROUTE INFO/ TASKS Teams arrive in Copenhagen the evening of July 3rd and drive themselves to Vor Frelsers Kirke. HoH requires teams to wait until the morning of July 4th to enter. Climb to the top (?) to receive their clue SOURCE (http://forum.realityfanforum.com/index.php/topic,26399.msg677447.html#msg677447) SOURCE 2 (http://www.sn.dk/Helikopter-over-Hilleroed-optog-amerikansk-tv-program/Hilleroed/artikel/139084)

Many Many thanks for everyone who has been helping with the timeline and an equal amount of apoligies for my not being more efficient with this project! Today I will not leave my desk until I am caught up!!

We probably all know Leg 3 took place in Indonesia too, but here's just some timeline evidence to back it up...

Teams were flying out of Yogyakarta on the 24th, arriving at Bangkok that evening. This means that the racing action for the next leg starts on the 25th, and Phil does his stand-ups on the 24th.

Phil was seen at Borobudur on the afternoon of the 23rd, when the check-ins for the previous leg ended around noon the day before. He would have had ample time to head out to Borobodur, get to the airport, and take this:

GA 215 from Yogyakarta to Jakarta, 1755-1900SQ 967 from Jakarta to Singapore, 2025-2300MI 752 (subsidiary of SQ) from Singapore to Phuket, 0820-0910

Allowing him to film his stand-ups on the 23rd and moving the entire schedule one day forward. It's likely he only waited around in Indonesia because he was needed to check in teams on the 23rd, meaning Leg 3 takes place around Yogyakarta too.

This means that Phil should be ready for filming his stand-ups on the 26th, and production would be ready for teams to arrive for a race on the 27th.

With teams racing Leg 5 on the 27th and Malawi on the 30th, there is definitely enough space for an extra, short leg in between. Three possibilities we're looking at:

1. Leg 5 as an extra short leg in Thailand2. Leg 6 as an extra short leg in South Africa3. Delay due to black-out in Malawi

DrRox noted that it was unusual for only four legs to be run in Asia, and if you add this to Elimination Station logistics, it kind of makes sense; we haven't had an Elimination Station with just four teams before, and it doesn't make sense to send a team from Africa all the way back for sequester. Although this is far from confirmed, I think Possibility #1 is the most likely: Leg 4 in Phuket (25 Jun), Leg 5 somewhere else in Thailand (26 Jun), Leg 6 in South Africa (28 Jun) and Leg 7 in Malawi (30 Jun).

Of course, we'd have to consider Possibility #4, where Johannesburg was merely used as a connection point after one/two legs in somewhere else completely different: Leg 4 in Phuket (25 Jun), Leg 5 elsewhere (26/27 Jun), Leg 6 elsewhere (28 Jun), Leg 7 Malawi (30 Jun). The variables are boundless in this case, and... I think we'd have to wait for more information before making a call.

Based on my research on flights, I vote for a regular leg ( I don't know what a short leg is) in South Africa ending 29 June, which means departure from Phuket the evening of Monday 27 June, flying all morning 28 June and perhaps carrying that leg over into 29 June before a pit stop to coincide with the known information about teams flying on SA170 into Lilongwe from Johannesburg.

I refer to a short leg as one with a one-calendar-day production cycle, whereas a normal leg has a two-calendar-day production cycle, with Phil getting a day to himself to film his stand-ups the day before teams race the leg. A short leg always covers little geographical distance from beginning to end, and has Phil with just a few hours of lead.

Barring unexpected delays with the blackouts and what-nots in Africa, here are the two most likely scenarios, with Country X possibly being South Africa or anywhere else, including... Nepal.

Neobie, correct me if I'm off, each date line represents who is on the move to what destination for the indicated leg. There is an implied timeframe of operations for Teams on the move that can extend across the dateline since not all Teams are moving at the same time. And there is also the timespan of the movement itself that can be a few hours to a day and a half for some travels.

Neobie, correct me if I'm off, each date line represents who is on the move to what destination for the indicated leg. There is an implied timeframe of operations for Teams on the move that can extend across the dateline since not all Teams are moving at the same time. And there is also the timespan of the movement itself that can be a few hours to a day and a half for some travels.

Not exactly. Each date represents (for Phil) the day he films his stand-ups, and (for the teams) the day they race and check-in at the Pit Stop. In the new race format (since TAR 14) the major race action only takes place within a single calendar day, and this is necessarily the same calendar day for all teams, with close to absolute zero overlap across dates as tasks rarely ever take place at night. Travel is not included in this timeline. For example teams flying from Taipei to Jakarta, taking the night train and then being held up at Bukit Indah, doesn't matter too much production-wise. What matters is the day the race action (tasks and what-not) takes place.

You're right! The timeline always gets fuzzy at the very end of a race, especially when there's a double leg in the penultimate city. Probably 'cause Phil has the flexibility to move around without stand-ups to do. Hence the weird timings in Prague, Moscow and Beijing...

Normal legs are allocated one day (before the actual race day) for rest and travel.Legs with simple travel between start and finish (Yogyakarta I to Yogyakarta II) get none.Legs with complicated travel between start and finish (Malawi to Copenhagen) get two days.First and last legs have no rest and travel days.

1) Dates labelled "rest and travel" refer to when teams are held up by long Pit Stops, Hours of Operation, or transport.2) Dates labelled "race" refer to when teams complete the majority of their tasks and check-in at the Pit Stop.

Hence this means:LEG 1: TAIPEI20 Jun: Race (12h Pit Stop)Teams race from 5.00am to 3.57pm, then check into Martyrs' Shrine.LEG 2: YOGYAKARTA I21 Jun: Rest/travelTeams held up by train schedule at Gambir and HoO at Bukit Indah.22 Jun: Race (21h50 Pit Stop)Teams race from ~7.30am to ~12.52pm, then check into the Kraton.LEG 3: YOGYAKARTA II23 Jun: Race (18h Pit Stop)Teams race from 9.38am to ~4.15pm, then check into Borobudur.LEG 4: PHUKET24 Jun: Rest/travelTeams spend the day travelling and being held up by the HoO at the pier.25 Jun: RaceTeams race from 8.00am to ~1.00pm, then check into Koh Panyi.LEG 5: BANGKOK26 Jun: Rest/travel27 Jun: Race28 Jun: RaceThis is an anomalous leg that hasn't happened since TAR 14. Teams complete the majority of their tasks on the day allocated for "rest and travel", then take an overnight bus to do close to nothing the next day but to feed fish and to check in. Possibly due to the last-minute planning of the leg?

Thanks Guacamole! Redid the system to forget about Phil, above posts edited. I think the Phuket/Bangkok legs were pretty strange though timeline-wise, perhaps because of the ad hoc nature of the planning for these two legs?

If Phil was just staying ahead of the teams in Phuket, then that may confirm that both Thailand legs had to be put into place at the last minute. The double roadblock task(s) would have made sense as part of one leg along with the tasks in the previous leg, which would lead me to think that they had a well-planned contingency leg for Phuket, but that whatever the emergency was elsewhere, they had to divide the originally planned leg into two legs where all of the tasks were essentially centered in Phuket.

This second Thailand leg really does seem to be one of the oddest legs ever.

The Luxurious Amazing Race is an oxymoron. What most people donít know is that the racers sleep anywhere and everywhere, you eat any food thatís available, and you wash up in the nearest sink, or garden hose. We slept on a restaurant floor in Indonesia, a boat dock in Phuket, a clay and straw hut in Malawi, and a hammock in a rural village in Panama. We stayed overnight in airports across the world (Singapore has a wonderful airport) but we also had some luxurious hotels! If youíre in Yogyakarta, the Sheraton treated us wonderfully and the outdoor pool and gardens are extremely peaceful and serene. The Sunbird Livingstone in Malawi was right on the lake with a stunning backdrop for your meals taken on the patio. Two other modern hotels were the Riu in Panama City and Siam@Siam in Bangkok (I highly recommend their Pad Thai!). We also had a wonderful cultural experience, and delicious hot chocolate, on the Havet Ship in Copenhagen!